Archive for July, 2005

Heat waves…I don’t like them. Or that song about them.

Well, it’s been a long, long week up here in the northwoods. I often wonder if I’m supposed to capitalize that…Northwoods? Then again, in my opinion it shouldn’t even be one word. But that’s how I see it used up here…so that’s what I’m going with.
It was the hottest week ever, at least for […]

It’s more mysterious than crop circles, that’s for sure.

Today I was a bit outraged at an article I read in The Des Moines Register. It relates how Iowa is one of only two states (the other is Mississippi) that has never elected a woman into the seat of governor nor sent a woman to Congress. Thus, the article goes on to say, […]

On the scarcity of the X chromosome in the Northwoods.

Sarah (my RPC grad school comrade) came up this weekend on her way to Hibbing, MN so Matt and I got to converse with a real human being who we are not related to who remembers our names for more than five minutes. It was great. Sarah and I discovered that if we both wear […]

Whenever we go to medium-sized civilized settlements, we end up driving for at least an hour and a half.

Well, I finally saw Lake Superior. Although it didn’t resemble a puddle this time, it still wasn’t really as superior as I had hoped. We went up to Ashland and saw the portion of the lake called Chequamegon Bay. I would tell you how that’s pronounced, but it would be much more fun for you […]

Batman began. And I was there. Well, in the theater.

I finally saw Batman Begins. It was good. It’s nice to see a movie that doesn’t have five fake-out endings (*cough* Return of the King). It’s also nice that the movie doesn’t end in a wedding. I hate that (unless it’s the whole point of the movie…and if it were I probably wouldn’t be watching […]